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Publication Date: 2021-01-25
Practice Area: Insurance Law
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Bender
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Case Number: 21-0067
Insured, who claimed that policyholder had not validly waived underinsured motorist coverage, could be held subject to the forum selection clause that was in the insurer's standard UIM provision in a case seeking to reform the insurance contract to include UIM coverage. Order of the trial court affirmed.
Publication Date: 2020-10-19
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Bender
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Case Number: 20-1130
While the trial court properly held that the odor of marijuana does not per se establish probable cause to conduct a warrantless search of a vehicle, the court failed to afford that factor any weight and did not appear to evaluate any other relevant factors in its probable cause analysis. The superior court vacated a suppression order and remanded for reconsideration.
Publication Date: 2020-09-21
Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Bender
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Case Number: 20-1029
Motion to suppress drugs and paraphernalia erroneously denied where police could not engage in a warrantless entry of a private residence under the public servant exception in the community caretaking doctrine as officers lacked facts to support a reasonable belief that defendant was in need of immediate mental health assistance or care. Judgment of sentence vacated, case remanded for new trial.
Publication Date: 2020-09-07
Practice Area: Family Law
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Bender
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Case Number: 20-0961
The Philadelphia Department of Human Services met its burden of establishing prima facie evidence that mother was the perpetrator of child abuse where the record established, by clear and convincing evidence, that the minor child was in mother's care at the time of injury and that such injuries would not ordinarily have been suffered but for the acts or omissions of her mother. The superior court affirmed the trial court's order. The superior court affirmed an order finding mother to be a perpetrator of child abuse.
Publication Date: 2020-09-07
Practice Area: Family Law
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Bender
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Case Number: 20-0973
Trial court properly found mother was a perpetrator of child abuse pursuant to 23 Pa.C.S. §6303(b.1)(5) and trial court's finding was not an abuse of discretion where evidence showed mother rubbed knife over toddler's body and threatened to drop a plugged-in iron in bath tub of water in which toddler and sibling were sitting. Affirmed.
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Publication Date: 2020-08-24
Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
Industry: Legal Services
Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Bender
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Case Number: 20-0905
When a defendant is being sentenced for a non-violent crime, a single prior conviction for a non-enumerated crime of violence does not alone constitute a history of past violent behavior so as to trigger ineligibility for the Recidivism Risk Reduction Incentive Act program; therefore, the trial court erred in finding defendant ineligible for the program. The superior court vacated defendant's judgment of sentence.
Publication Date: 2020-08-24
Practice Area: Personal Injury
Industry: Energy | Transportation
Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Bender
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Case Number: 20-0912
Trial court erred in granting summary judgment to defendants based on a statutory employer defense arising from §302(a) of the Workers' Compensation Act where plaintiff's employer had been contracted to transport and deliver materials, rather than to dig for or excavate minerals. Order of the trial court vacated, case remanded.
Publication Date: 2020-07-27
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Bender
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Case Number: 20-0787
Where the only issue the jury could have relied upon in acquitting defendant of fleeing/eluding was defendant's identity as the perpetrator, the trial court erred under principles of collateral estoppel and double jeopardy in subsequently convicting defendant of summary offenses arising from the same incident. Judgment of sentence reversed.
Publication Date: 2020-07-20
Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
Industry: Technology Media and Telecom
Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Bender
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Case Number: 20-0765
Delaying disclosure of jurors' names following mistrial until pending charges were resolved by verdict or dismissal constituted sufficiently narrowly-tailored burden on First Amendment rights of public access to criminal trials in light of concerns about maintaining a fair trial for defendant on retrial. Order of the trial court affirmed.
Publication Date: 2020-07-20
Practice Area: Contracts
Industry: Construction
Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Bender
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Case Number: 20-0766
Trial court properly affirmed arbitration award where there was no evidence to support allegation that arbitrator inappropriately applied arbitration rules to deny defendant a fair hearing. Order of the trial court affirmed.
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